On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:53:10 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed 20 Mar 2019 at 18:21:20 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:00:12 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 02:10:57 PM David Wright wrote: > > > > Actually I don't call youtube-dl as above, because I have two helper > > > > functions which do things like history logging to prevent me > > > > accidentally downloading the same video twice. > > > > > > Are you willing to share? > > > > Note that you can apparently do something like this natively with > > youtube-dl itself - see its --download-archive option. > > Sure, but I prefer my history file which saves a valid URL that > I can pass on to people who don't use youtube-dl. Gotcha - but your message mentioned specifically prevention of the accidental download of the same video twice, which my suggestion accomplishes. Celejar
